[BangPypers] BangPypers Digest, Vol 46, Issue 25

Wed Jun 29 11:20:30 CEST 2011

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On Jun 29, 2011, at 12:34, bangpypers-request at python.org wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>   1. Re: How to read barcoded value from the PDF (Maxin B John)
>   2. Re: bof (Kenneth Gonsalves)
>   3. Re: bof (Noufal Ibrahim)
>   4. Python User Group International Survey (Brian Curtin)
>   5. Re: [Ipss] Python User Group International Survey
>      (Anand Balachandran Pillai)
>   6. svg string to pdf (Venkatraman S)
>   7. Re: svg string to pdf (Venkatraman S)
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:09:28 +0100 (BST)
> From: Maxin B John <maxin_john at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "bangpypers at python.org" <bangpypers at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [BangPypers] How to read barcoded value from the PDF
> Message-ID: <1309259368.8518.YahooMailNeo at web26604.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> I have a PDF document which consist of barcode characters. Now how 
> can I retrieve that 
> 
>> bar-coded value programmatically. When I googled I 
> found a tool called Pypdf which provides a function called 
> 'PdfFileReader'
>> To read the PDF file, but how can I read the barcode form the existing PDF. Any solution?
> 
> Another solution might be using zbar: http://zbar.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> Zbar can be used for reading bar codes from various sources, such as video streams, image files and raw
> intensity sensors (from: README)
> 
> It's python binding (python-zbar) can be installed directly using the apt-get.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Maxin
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:45:52 +0530
> From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at gmail.com>
> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [BangPypers] bof
> Message-ID: <1309259752.2355.9.camel at localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> 
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 14:18 +0530, Shashidhar P wrote:
>> Which Koshys ? Richmond town or where?
> 
> st Marks road
>> and what is bof? 
> 
> come and find out
> -- 
> regards
> Kenneth Gonsalves
> http://lawgon.livejournal.com/
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:53:22 +0530
> From: Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com>
> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers at python.org>
> Cc: mahiti at mahiti.org
> Subject: Re: [BangPypers] bof
> Message-ID: <87y60mmc7p.fsf at sanitarium.localdomain>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> Shashidhar P <shashidhar85 at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Which Koshys ? Richmond town or where?
>> and what is bof?
> 
> [...]
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_Feather_(computing)
> 
> -- 
> ~noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:10:54 -0500
> From: Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com>
> To: bangpypers at python.org
> Subject: [BangPypers] Python User Group International Survey
> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=no1A9J31rS5vq2yrWi7V2yj8U1Q at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> The PSF is happy to launch today an international survey of Pythonuser
> group organizers to help it better serve the large and ever-expanding
> international Python user community.
> 
> The survey contains questions on user group organization, events,
> demographics, and growth. There are some questions with numerical
> answers, and while your best guess is fine, you may find it helpful to
> gather some statistics on your user group membership before starting
> the survey (example statistics include the number of active members
> and the size and topics for recent user group events).
> 
> We expect this survey to take around 30 minutes to complete. We
> appreciate your time and honesty in answering these questions.
> 
> The PSF blog post announcing the survey:
> http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/06/tell-us-about-your-user-group.html
> 
> The survey was written by Jessica McKellar (http://jesstess.com),
> organizer for the Boston Python Meetup
> (http://meetup.bostonpython.com), and Jesse Noller
> (http://jessenoller.com/), PSF board member and PyCon chair with input
> and feedback from survey specialists and others.
> 
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWLG8SZ
> 
> The survey was pretested with a handful of user group organizers, and
> their answers were phenomenal. Organizers have tons to say about these
> topics, and we hope to get a lot of great, actionable data for
> strengthening the relationship between the PSF and Python user groups
> out of this effort.
> 
> Outreach, education, diversity and community building are critical for
> Python as a community, and the Foundation - this data should greatly
> assist in our targeting our resources and furthering the mission of
> the Foundation in all ways.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> The Python Software Foundation
> Jessica McKellar
> Jesse Noller
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:24:18 +0530
> From: Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>
> To: Indian Python Software Society <ipss at python.org>
> Cc: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [BangPypers] [Ipss] Python User Group International
>    Survey
> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=L2FgMELhOBGQkSW15+X-W4yuFHA at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
>              Thank you for informing the list(s). I have already
> completed this survey on behalf of BangPypers.
> 
> --Anand
> 
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> The PSF is happy to launch today an international survey of Python user
>> group organizers to help it better serve the large and ever-expanding
>> international Python user community.
>> 
>> The survey contains questions on user group organization, events,
>> demographics, and growth. There are some questions with numerical
>> answers, and while your best guess is fine, you may find it helpful to
>> gather some statistics on your user group membership before starting
>> the survey (example statistics include the number of active members
>> and the size and topics for recent user group events).
>> 
>> We expect this survey to take around 30 minutes to complete. We
>> appreciate your time and honesty in answering these questions.
>> 
>> The PSF blog post announcing the survey:
>> http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2011/06/tell-us-about-your-user-group.html
>> 
>> The survey was written by Jessica McKellar (http://jesstess.com),
>> organizer for the Boston Python Meetup
>> (http://meetup.bostonpython.com), and Jesse Noller
>> (http://jessenoller.com/), PSF board member and PyCon chair with input
>> and feedback from survey specialists and others.
>> 
>> https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BWLG8SZ
>> 
>> The survey was pretested with a handful of user group organizers, and
>> their answers were phenomenal. Organizers have tons to say about these
>> topics, and we hope to get a lot of great, actionable data for
>> strengthening the relationship between the PSF and Python user groups
>> out of this effort.
>> 
>> Outreach, education, diversity and community building are critical for
>> Python as a community, and the Foundation - this data should greatly
>> assist in our targeting our resources and furthering the mission of
>> the Foundation in all ways.
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> The Python Software Foundation
>> Jessica McKellar
>> Jesse Noller
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ipss mailing list
>> Ipss at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ipss
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> --Anand
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:17:29 +0530
> From: Venkatraman S <venkat83 at gmail.com>
> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers at python.org>
> Subject: [BangPypers] svg string to pdf
> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=CSagYmJWe9Cy+GeaRh4aDR__cQQ at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to use reportlab(along with svglib) to draw a svg string into a
> pdf, but so far have not been successful.
> I can share the code for the same; but was wondering if anyone has any other
> options for the same?
> 
> -Venkat
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:34:36 +0530
> From: Venkatraman S <venkat83 at gmail.com>
> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India <bangpypers at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [BangPypers] svg string to pdf
> Message-ID: <BANLkTim=+q59WHr+kWSAvFt2ZFHCm63xTw at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> 
> So the problem is this: I need to scale the svg - know how to do that?
> 
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:30 AM, vijay <vnbang2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Venkat,
>>    i can try to help you if you can share code with me and explain me
>> problem area.
>> 
>> With Regards
>> Vijay
>> 
>> 
>> --- On *Wed, 29/6/11, Venkatraman S <venkat83 at gmail.com>* wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> From: Venkatraman S <venkat83 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [BangPypers] svg string to pdf
>> To: "Bangalore Python Users Group - India" <bangpypers at python.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, 29 June, 2011, 11:17 AM
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to use reportlab(along with svglib) to draw a svg string into a
>> pdf, but so far have not been successful.
>> I can share the code for the same; but was wondering if anyone has any
>> other
>> options for the same?
>> 
>> -Venkat
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